Dr. Vasileios K. Tzitzios is the principal investigator of the project specializing in nanoscience and nanotechnology. He holds both an MSc and a PhD in Chemistry from Aristotle University of Thessaloniki. Currently, he serves as a Senior Researcher at the Institute of Nanoscience and Nanotechnology, part of the National Centre for Scientific Research “Demokritos” in Athens.

Dr. Tzitzios has collaborated internationally during his career, including roles as a Research Associate at Khalifa University in Abu Dhabi, the University of Delaware, and the Jožef Stefan Institute. His research focuses on the synthesis and characterization of advanced magnetic nanomaterials—like colloidal nanoparticles, and nanoalloys—applied to areas such as energy, catalysis, electronics, environment, and biomedicine.

Prof. Ioannis Panagiotopoulos received his PhD from the National Technical University of Athens in collaboration with NCSR “Demokritos” in 1994. In the period 1994-1995 he worked as a postdoctoral Research Scholar in the Department of Physics and Astronomy of the University of Delaware (with Prof. G. Hadjipanayis).  He returned to Greece as a Research Associate in the Institute of Materials Science of the NCSR “Demokritos”. Since 2002, apart from a six-month sabbatical in CEA-Saclay in 2013, he working as faculty member of the Materials Science and Engineering Department of University of Ioannina, with specialization in magnetic materials. He has supervised 8 PhD, 17 MSc and 51 diploma theses. He is co-author in 126 scientific publications with 3019 citations and h-index 29.

Research Director at the Institute of Nanoscience and Nanotechnology, NCSR DEMOKRITOS. Permanent Magnets, Magnetic Recording and Thermoelectrics research group leader. Head of Mössbauer spectroscopy laboratory.

Research Interests: Hard magnetic materials, behaviour of magnetic nanoparticles, thin films and multilayers.  Mössbauer spectroscopy. Magnetic phenomena and applications. The investigation of the dynamic and static magnetic properties of materials using Mössbauer Spectroscopy in combination with magnetic measurements can give a wide range of useful information on materials with applications in magnetic recording, permanent magnets, minerals processing, catalysis, gas processing, and pharmaceuticals.

Dr. Michael Pissas, Research Director in the INN, leads the magnetic measurements, solid-state chemistry, and Metallurgy laboratories. He will focus on structural and magnetic characterization using the Rietveld analysis method and magnetic measurements of the studied materials.

Dr. Nikolaos Spyridon Boukos is currently Research Director and Head of the Electron Microscopy and Nanomaterials Lab of the Institute of Nanoscience and Nanotechnology, National Centre for Scientific Research “Demokritos”. His research interests include structural and properties study of nanomaterials using electron microscopy associated techniques such as TEM, HRTEM, SEM and EELS. He has authored more than 250 articles in international refereed journals (h index 44) and participated in 20 international and national research projects. He is currently member of the Technology Council for Advanced Materials (EU).

Dr. Georgia Basina, is a Materials Scientist specialized in Materials Chemistry. After receiving her PhD degree, she performed research in laboratories abroad (Greece, Slovenia, USA, UAE) with different disciplines. Dr. Basina obtained extensive experience in colloidal synthesis of nanostructured and porous materials. Alongside her professional experience, her skills include several analytical techniques such as XRD, SEM, TEM (EDAX, SAED), FT-IR, DTA/TG, UV/VIS, DLS, GS-SCD, gas sorption properties (BET, Langmuir) and Vibrating Sample Magnetometer (VSM) for magnetic characterization. Given her expertise, she will focus on both synthesis and characterization of the proposed materials, data evaluation, and project management, and manuscripts writing.

Garyfalia (Lina) Nezou holds an Integrated Master’s Diploma (MEng) from the Department of Materials Science and Engineering, School of Engineering, University of Ioannina. She specialized in Magnetoresistance (MR) and the Anomalous Hall effect (AHE) in Pt/Co/W multilayer thin films, involving extensive use of Vibrating Sample Magnetometer (VSM) techniques and working with the Van der Pauw method. Her skill set includes data analysis, with practical experience in handling and interpreting complex datasets. From 2020 to 2025, she worked as a Technical Engineer and Optronic Engineer in industrial companies in Greece. Since May 2025, she has been working as a Research Assistant at NCSR Demokritos (Institute of Nanoscience and Nanotechnology), under the supervision of Dr. V. Tzitzios. Her research focuses on the development of non-rare-earth hard magnetic materials.

Konstantinidis Alexandros, is materials science engineer with a master’s thesis on the composition and characterization of nanomodified concrete. Since 2025, he is working as a graduate research associate at NCSR “Demokritos” on the composition and characterization of magnetic properties in metal alloys.